Samsung Result

South Korean technology giant Samsung Electronics on Thursday reported a record operating profit of 89.5 trillion won (USD 62 billion) for the April-June period, a day after crosstown rival SK Hynix also reported record earnings, as the world's two largest memory chipmakers continue to ride the global artificial intelligence boom. Despite their soaring profits, the companies' shares have fallen sharply this week in South Korea's volatile stock market, where retail investors often drive sharp swings in share prices, as concerns grow over their plans to spend massively on increasing manufacturing capacity and the prospects of intensifying competition from China. Samsung's second-quarter operating profit was a more than 19-fold increase from a year earlier, and nearly all of it came from its semiconductor business, which benefited from rising chip prices driven by demand for AI servers and increased shipments of advanced high-bandwidth memory chips used to power AI applications. That ..

South Korea's biggest company has become a stark example of how quickly fortunes can turn in an industry where the spoils go to those who maintain a technological edge

Samsung on Thursday reported strong third-quarter earnings

Revenue rose an estimated 19% from the same period a year earlier to 63 trillion won, Samsung said in a short preliminary earnings release

Samsung Electronics on Wednesday expected a market forecast-beating earnings for the first quarter of 2021, estimating its operating profit at $8.3 billion for the first three months of the year

Samsung is scheduled to announce preliminary first-quarter results on Wednesday

The world's top memory chip and smartphone maker said operating profit was likely 8.1 trillion won (5.44 billion pounds) in the quarter ended June

SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korean tech giant Samsung Electronics Co Ltd <005930.KS> estimated on Friday earnings would grow at the slowest pace in more than a year in the second quarter, as analysts said weak smartphone sales likely offset record high chip earnings.